你是“夜店族”或“血拼族”嗎

　　pub crawl

　　Crawl 的意思是爬，那么爬酒吧又是什么意思呢？

　　不論單身與否，泡吧是許多人最喜歡的娛樂活動。去酒吧的話，有的人prefer to stay in one place，而有些人則喜歡go to more than one pub on a night out。一晚上去好多酒吧，每個酒吧都坐上一會兒，然后再去其它酒吧，我們管這種在酒吧間串來串去的行為就叫做pub crawl。

　　Pub crawl 起源于19世紀，它也可以叫做a gin crawl 或是bar-hopping. It is the social act of a group of people drinking in a number of pubs in a single night。

　　The tradition of pub crawl is to walk from pub to pub with designated tee shirts for the bartenders to sign to show they were there. A new trend in this social networking is where the pub crawlers have anyone they meet also sign their shirts, kind of like a myspace friends network with ink and cloth.

　　至于用法上，你可以說we're going on a pub crawl 或是we're doing a pub crawl。

　　對話：

　　A: What are you doing on Saturday then?

　　B: I'm going on a pub crawl in town with some friends。

　　Do you enjoy pub crawls? Have you ever been on a pub crawl? 如果你沒串過酒吧，為什么不試試呢？mall rat

　　Mall就是購物中心，rat就是老鼠。Mall rat當然并非真的指一種老鼠，它是指年輕人像老鼠那樣在mall里鉆來鉆去。

　　一到周末，許多年輕人都會去mall買東西。有的人也不見得想買什么，他們只是愿意呆在商場消磨時間。人們把經常到mall去逛的年輕人叫做：mall rat。它是一個俚語用法，指的是 a young person who loiters about shopping malls，即指那些老喜歡到購物中心去逛的年輕人。

　　例句：Hey, there's always something to do there for us mall rats. At least a dozen fast food places where we can buy a burger, a slice of pizza, ice cream--whatever. Ten different movie theaters. And a whole lot of people to watch, you know? I can, like, spend the whole day there, you know?

　　嗨，對我們愛逛購物中心的人來說，那兒總是有好玩的事的。那兒至少有十幾個快餐店，我們可以在那里買漢堡包，意大利餅，冰淇淋等，什么都有。那兒還有十個電影院，放映不同的電影。你還可以看到好多人，你知道嗎？我可以在那里玩上一整天。

　　又如：Sure, I used to be a typical mall rat hanging around watching the crowds, especially the girls. But then I went out for basketball, made the team and I don't have time to waste anymore!

　　當然了，我過去是個典型的逛購物中心狂，喜歡在那里觀看來來往往的人，特別是女孩子。可是，后來我去打籃球，而且進了球隊，這樣我就沒法再浪費時間了。